Clue #134 - Speaker Special

Speaker at Inside the Experience, just posted the pic above (he had the image flipped). The filename is "ironman_1". Could this be a message from Rachel to "Iron Man" Malik? The hex converted to Ascii is: "rewsna ym wonk ydaerla uoy neht era uoy kniht i ohw tuoba gniklat eruoy fi nadjd ot ni llac uoy draeh ti si thgif eht ni uoy gnipeek si ecneicsnoc --m" If you read this backwords it says: "M--Conscience is keeping you in the fight is it? Heard you call in to DJ Dan. If you're talking about who I think you are then you already know my answer."

Thanks to Gerry, Twinkle, Dennis, and PeaceandNamaste for emailing us about this cool new clue!

Does anyone have any ideas what this clue is actually, well, for? It looks like it's just pointing us in the direction of DJ Dan's next podcast, but we didn't need another clue to tell us that! It must be something more.. After all, the image is ironman_1.jpg, so will we get ironman_2, ironman_3?

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here's something i posted earlier when things were slow. i'd really love the thoughts of the group. at the end of the sri lanka video, mittlewerk saysIt is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus,but I promise you, someone is going to hel..." The end of the word is cut off as he notices Rachel, but it could be "help".Does anyone have any ideas as to who he might be referring to?

Fastenyourseatbelts said... here's something i posted earlier when things were slow. i'd really love the thoughts of the group. at the end of the sri lanka video, mittlewerk says It is not fair that innocents have to die so that we can perfect this virus,but I promise you, someone is going to hel..." The end of the word is cut off as he notices Rachel, but it could be "help". Does anyone have any ideas as to who he might be referring to?

Assuming it is Rachel who sent the message to Malek via Speaker, why did it take her a full month??? Malek told her that he can set up the meeting on Aug 11, now its Sep 9! She sure took her sweet time to respond to him.

dennis,how could be possibly have found them sooner? They weren't released sooner and there was absolutely no relationship between the time it took us to find them (only seconds at times) and the release of the next one. They were released on a fixed schedule...

Well I must say that this latest development blows one little theory that I had... that Rachel had contacted Malik and a meeting had been arranged between Alvar and Rachel... I had then thought that Alvar had funded the Apollo bar switcheroo and the payoff at WIA would be footage of Alvar (maybe the meeting with Rachel). Maybe instead it was Hackett that aided the Apollo bar remodel and distribution, and Rachel hasn't been able to contact Malik until now as distributing 70 video fragments was still at the top of her to-do list.

So if the WIA payoff was devised before Rachel sent this message to Malik, thus before any meeting with Alvar, what will the WIA payoff be? Will we get to see how Rachel got out of Sri Lanka? She's had Malik come to her aid, Hugh was kinda a good guy too, and we know Peter Thompson wasn't in full support of Mittelwerk, maybe it was PT that helped Rachel this time. Maybe we find out that Sri Lanka didn't go ahead?

oodles said... how could be possibly have found them sooner? They weren't released sooner and there was absolutely no relationship between the time it took us to find them (only seconds at times) and the release of the next one. They were released on a fixed schedule...

I know. I was just kidding... sarcasm... that's why I put a happy face at the end...

Maybe Rachel's been cooped up in a factory all this time while her helpers have been forwarding the Mittlwork Apollo bars to her? Then she carefully unwraps each one, replaces it with a whereisalvar bar before sending it on it's way to the original distributors. That'd explain why she's been so incommunicado.

Was it me, or was there a time long before glyphs filled our dreams that we thought the Speaker was untrustworthy? My theory that this is just a red herring or even something to keep us occupied for a little bit while TPTB take another action.

the fact that she is onl y responding now, like a month later is just stupid. She obvioiusly doesn't really care to get help or consider the fact that by waiting so long malik has already gotten caught or killed himself. This is stupid.,

twinkle, you are so right! Bad guys on shows always do it wrong! They take time out to explain their evil mastermind plan to their captor, their captor gets away, and knowing their plans, can foil them ;-) OK, maybe I've been watching too much Kim Possible.

~~~~~~SPOILER for season 2 finale~~~~~~

If she delayed the release of the Sri lanka video, condemming that 30% of those villagers... then Rachel is no better than Michael taking off with Walt and leaving behind his "friends"

Noblelawyer: Totally agree that this is stupid. Not life-like at all. While Rachel took her sweet time to get this video pieces out, 30% of the Sri Lanka Island population was dying. Appearing at ComicCon after she found out about Sri Lanka wasn't very realistic either. Now making us wait until the 23rd (maybe) is more aggravation.

I'm losing my mine! I was staring at the ironman_1 and could have sworn i saw a glyph appear with the code for the 71st fragment, the one we have been waiting for. Of course I might be hallucinating since I ate an Apollo bar. OH DEAR! I see Dave. He's telling me TLE is part of my mind. Okay, enough of my psychological problems, i need to see a shrink or something. I hear the one in the VIK institutes are good...

Happy Saturday everyone - nice to see some activity on the weekend... although I have to admit I am not one for Weekend gaming as I have too many kids activities normally. Just stopping in for a quick post and update on the Apollo event in Lexington!

Apollo - Glad to have had the opportunity to meet TLCM and Dennis at the event, nice to meet others who's family looked at them as nutty too!!!

As far as the event goes, Dennis pretty much summed it all up well. My family and I stayed till the very end... Men In Trees is an okay show, but Ugly Betty was the better of the two premiers. We talked to a few of the TV workers at the end that were collecting surveys.. They thought we were nutty for driving the 1 1/2 hours just for the Apollo Bars. They seemed very nice. By the end of the Men In Trees premier the ABC guy with the extra Apollo bars was gone - disappeared into the night and took the chocolate with him.. how rude. Nothing LOST occurred, so Dennis, no you did not miss anything.

Wow.. think this is my longest post ever.

Hoping to be able to get my Apollo pics up on WIA by tomorrow or monday at the latest..

i know im coming in at a strange time. very quiet around here. its just that im out of town, coming home tomorrow and i dont have much time to spend here as id like to. Interesting new clue. I'm glad to see the story is finally picking up and getting somewhere. i cant wait to see where it leads.

Well, we know that DJDan is not Jewish! The podcast is on The Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashannah. Guess I will have to read the transcript later... I would have guessed the someone in TPTB would have honored that day...

Did we ever end up finding all the pieces to the Gary Troup interview?

2) For all of you that have the Lost Season 2 DVD:

I'm sure some of you previously saw the UK Lost promo (if not, its on the S2 DVD). When I first saw it a long time ago, I thought nothing of it other than the fact that it was weird and didn't really have much to do with the show. But, watching it again (while going through the DVD special features) something caught my ear: the phrase "one of us is a cop."

I forget exactly when this promo came out...but wasn't it a promo for Lost season 1? And, am I mistaken, or isn't Anna-Lucia the only cop on the show? Does this mean we've been handed something about one of our core characters that we didn't know yet?

Just checking in for the evening and I'm glad I did... love it when they give us action on the weekend... obviously this is from rachel regarding Malik's call in to DJ Dan.... wonder what it means... anyway, hope everyone had a great Saturday, and wish you a wonderful Sunday to boot...

It took me a while to find it, but I went into the archives on the lost experience clues, and it looks like that was clue #34--I watched the You Tube video and saw it had been posted May 17, so I went back and looked at clues from May. The wording is an anagram for "The Mouthpiece" which I think ended up being a password somewhere. The archives of this site are great--it reminds me how many clues I have already forgotten and what a fun game it has been!

Ok, so here's the dialogue we have up to now between Malek and Rachel:

"I know where he is, I can set it up." (Malek to Rachel, via DJ Dan podcast and Bad Twin clue)

" (...) If you're talking about who I think you are then you already know my answer." (Rachel to Malek).

Our obvious takes here are:

"He" is Alvar Hanso;

Rachel's "answer" must be YES (after all, she's been asking to everyone 'Where is Alvar?')

alternative possibility: Rachel's answer is "NO", as she is not ready yet to meet her FATHER in person...

Also, "he" may be someone else other than Alvar, although I can't thing of any other character who could step into these "he" shoes.

btw, Rachel seem to be very slow in getting the messages Malek sends her, as it took her more than a month to decipher the code Malek called into Dj Dan's podcast. Perhaps she should visit TLEC site more often!

fgradel, well spotted. There's a problem though.. If Rachel visits TLEC she'll be acknowledging that the ARG is just a game. This will either result in her imploding or the universe exploding.. i'm not sure which, never really paid attention in theoretical-psuedo-physics :)

I like the fact that the man playing Alvar Hanso in the Sri Lanka video is actually a well known actor, Ian Patrick Williams, who appeared in Alias. That might tell us that he's going to appear in the actual show, instead of only in thhe ARG.

Wow! I have been out all day and just thought what the heck I'll check TLEC before I go to bed- and low and behold a clue! At least we have something...hopefully there will be more before WIA ends. Also, my first thought was, "I wonder who found this first?" As if someone's name would be entered on a leaderboard somewhere for finding it....residual effects of that darn glyph hunt. I still find myself looking for glyphs. And BTW P&N- sitonamonkey is old, created by admin and the guys at save joop as a joke.

posting on the TLEC comments pages is my first real experience with blogs, so i'm trying to understanding the meaning or reason behind the "first!", "second!" posts that always make up the first few posts on the comments. For example mick posted "first" as the first comment, and is really psyched about it.. Can someone explain?

This is kind of cool, bu tI hope we don't have to wait until the 23rd.

Can anyone tell me if they also have issues loading pics to WIA and how I might be able to fix this? I tryed it with my HE ID and I created a new one and I get upload error and then RB sends me an email telling me that I can only upload on per 24hrs, well, I have not uploaded any, ever...heck I just got my bars yesterday....what gives?

Hi guys, I was reading the posts at ITE and there is a post by "RB" yesterday at 2:52 that translates to HeyEVERYONE.ROBDOWNING Is this a real post? Does it mean anything or just someone messing around?

raechel....malek is the man who broke into rachel's hotel room. rachel hit him over the head with an iron (hence his affectionate nickname on the blogs "ironman"). we learned his real name when he called into dj dan's live show and gave out a series of numbers that corresponded to pages in the bad twin.

Human Pawn... I think that site is fake, being the word "lost" brings you to the old hanso site, but by way of the tons of numbers/letters than "noshutdown" w/e and if it was real I would think they would have a better way of getting there. Then, the word "Dharma" brings you to http://thedharmainitiative.org/ which is definately fake by looking at the source. Or at least it looks NOTHING like the in-game sites do.

JoAnn, Hereandthere - I noticed the click on stuff right after I posted the first time (completely jumped the gun) hence the quick follow up mentioning the other site it linked to (which was one of the "fake" Hanso sites back before TLE started up).

Just guess I've been expecting something to happen on myspace, especially with Manny, Speaker and Ninja all over there (oh and while I'm at it, check my profile and join the Damon Lindelof group on myspace as it needs a kick up the arse/new members ;) )

I just finished watching todays rerun of this weeks episode of LOST on Channel 4 in the UK. At the end we were told, as usual, to go to http://channel4.com/lost/ for more information but instead of being told to just go there for more info on the show, we were told to go there for more information about "the book that everyone is talking about", which I assume is Bad Twin, since the episode was the one that had Sawyer reading the manuscript.

On the Channel4 LOST page there's a link to the amazon.com listing, here;

http://amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905026307

There are a few links on that page that, when clicked, attempt to open some kind of video or something.. I'm having problems viewing the videos, and I don't know if i'm looking in the right place or not... But it seems to me like we have the beginning of a clue...

Well I don't know, don't even know if i'm looking in the right place. All I know is that after this weeks repeat of LOST on channel4 in the UK the presenter/narrater/whatever said go to http://channel4.com/lost for more information on "the book that everyone is talking about".

Well.... the site monitor hasn't reported any changes to any in-game sites since Speakers update yesterday.. So I dunno, maybe Channel4 were just trying to tap into the popularity of TLE and getting us to go to their site by making it sound like it was part of the game.. :(

Hey Guys, I must restrain my excitment while I write this, but am hoping the sound gurus in here can help out.

Folks that know about sound and manipulating sound, have a good ear for identifing an unknown sound and matching it with a known sound, are the talents I hope, would help.

I am going way out on a limb here, with a hunch, so if this leads to nowhere, please be kind and don't roast me, ok? :)

The you tube "wave" video I posted a link to yesterday, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUqhga2ul-Q) ,I have been examining and playing around with. Specifically the audio.

I know, seems the least important, compared to the video.

But I have taken the original DVD, ripped the video into an avi format, to make playing with easier. I then took the avi file and ripped or removed just the audio, and proceeded to speed, slow, change pitch and etc, to see what I could hear.

This first mp3 is of just the audio at normal speed, sounds like radio/TVstatichttp://www.lostdude.com/lostaudio/LO20NNT7240_2006-09-09A128kbps.mp3

Now, same audio as above, but slowed to 80 % of the originalhttp://www.lostdude.com/lostaudio/LO20NNT7240_2006-09-09ASLOWED8032kbps.mp3

I will not speculate as to what this sounds like to me, so as not to bias your opinion, but please listen and give feedback to what this sounds like to you trained ear. Each file is less then 500 KB

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bad twin has just been published in the uk, so it could be nothing more than a promotion for that... i would like to see the rest of the gary troup interview though... wasn't a 'fragment' of it on the us amazon site when the book was published over there?

Yeah I see what you mean. I don't hear anything familiar in the slowed down version, but it sounds like there could be there. I'm not very good at identifying sounds, to be honest.. I've listened to all of 'The Whispers' over and over and still haven't once found anything that sounds even vaguely recognisable, let alot a human voice.. I'd like to know what you think the sound is though.. :)

^^ So many typos.. My apologies, i'm starting a new college tomorrow, plus it's been about 4 years since I was anywhere near a school or a college, so i'm finding ith ard to concentrate.. Maybe that's why I was going over Amazon.com and a bunch of other clues that have already been and gone.. rofl

peaceandnamaste, I really want to say, but let's wait for more folks to listen, and voice their opinion. I will say though, I too, have never been very good at hearing the "whispers", and in this case that is not what I hear.Thanks for your input, though. It is Sunday here in the States, and many folks are not here, prolly doing family things.

thinbluemime - It feels a little graspy to try to make this connection, but I can't help thinking about the very strong fan theory of the underwater hatch. Given the scenes in the Season 3 teaser commercial, I can't help but get a little giddy thinking about the possibilities.

Yes, the 3rd season , the underwater tank from the old TV show Hawii 5-0 (?) is rumored to be employed heavily.

Giddy here to, for several reasons:

1) The one legged Aussie woman who told Hurley about Lenny and her Husband hearing the "numbers". Some folks may have fogotten, but the radio waves they were monitoring were.....LONG waves, as opposed to short-wave. LONG wave is used a lot underwater, when short waves are interrupted.2)To Many to mention now...but the killer, and the implications are mind boggling.......the sounds in question were found at the end (?) of the chain of the LOST Character connections!!! I will not say more, but season 3 will be amazing!!

I also thought this staticky image from the "Lost Connections" on the Season 2 DVD was interesting, but honestly I don't think that there's anything in the sound. Almost anything slowed down 80% will sound funky ; ). I do have a speculation about what this screen is supposed to mean, but it requires some Spoiler Space:

...............

Connections leading from Jack, Jack's Dad, and Claire all go to this same sort of staticky screen with the shadowy figure. I think that this is supposed to indicate that these 3 characters are all connected. In "Two for the Road" last season (http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Two_for_the_Road), Jack's dad visits this woman demanding to see his daughter. The speculation is that the daughter is Claire, making her Jack's half-sister, which would make them all connected.

Listening to the unfiltered audio, whatever is there is on a loop. It sounds a lot like somebody is saying "Jesus" followed by all kinds of static. As for slowing it down.. While a good idea from my perspective their are no filters on it in the first place. So slowing it down will alter the sound but that is not how it originally sounded. It think it's just static?!?!?!?

passafist, the unfiltered audio, I will re-listen to, I missed Jesus (wink)

In the meanwhile, I recommend a visit to http://www.whalesounds.com/home/index.htmland play around with the 12 or so sound bites.......if one listens VERY carefully, one might hear all sorts of LOST sounds......

I have it translated.. it's a keyboard code..each character shifted over one to the right:

"R -- I think it's fair to say, whatever conscience I have was built on faulty equipment. This is a matter of duty. Loyalty... Speaking of which, I've been troubled by the very recent disappearance of an old friend, de Zylva. We all saw your Sri Lanka video. You were captured at the end, and yet, there you were, blasting those Lost producers in San Diego not a week later. And, I have to wonder... did de Zylva have something to do with that(shift?) Do you know what's become of him?"

On a standard keyboard 'z' is immediately adjacent to to the right of the 'SHIFT' key, so everywhere there's a 'z' in the code, you are supposed to capitalize the following character. Since 'r' is immediately to the right of 't', the first letters 'zt' become 'capital-r' or "R".

yay Dante! I figured it out myself because I flipped the image in Photoshop and don't have never used a character recognition program so decided it would be faster to type it out myself, and in doing so noticed that the "words" were like whoever typed the message had their fingers one place to the right. And you got that wierd shift near the end too, sweet, I am not going insane :D Thinking about it now I think it is to signify a question mark (since the key on the right of ? is the "shift").

That'll teach me for taking Monday easy! Now let's see if I can type my word verification without shifting my fingers one to the left or right...

about 'de Zylva' -- you can double-check the translation yourself and verify that's what it is. :)

about the line spacing in the coded message, whenever there's an apostrophe (like in "it's" in the first line) this creates a line break because the key immediately to the right of the apostrophe is RETURN.

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